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On second thought : updating the eighteenth-century text / edited by Debra Taylor Bourdeau and Elizabeth Kraft.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- English literature--Adaptations.
- Authorship.
- History.
- Sequels (Literature).
- Intertextuality.
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- Authorship--History.
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- English literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Genre:
- Adaptations.
- Physical Description:
- 301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- Every ending marks a potential beginning; every act of reading is, in a very real sense an act of re-writing; and to revise is, literally, to re-see. These bits of conventional wisdom underlie the topic explored in this volume's collection of essays by literary critics who want to know more about the instinct to continue and the impulse to revise an existing text.
- Contents:
- "The measured lines of the copyist" : sequels, reviews, and the discourse of authorship in England, 1749-1800 / Betty A. Schellenberg
- The slave, the scourge, and society : a comparison of Gay's first and second series of fables / John Adrian
- Updating Summer, or, revising and recomposing The seasons / Sandro Jung
- Far from Simple : Sarah Fielding's Familiar letters and the limits of the eighteenth-century sequel / Allen Michie
- Gay's retreatment of The beggar's opera in Polly / Gregory Timmons
- "Betwixt one passion and another" : continuations of Laurence Sterne's A sentimental journey, 1769-1820 / W.B. Gerard
- Writers that changed the world : Samuel Richardson, Upton Sinclair, and the strategies of social reform / Elizabeth Kraft
- Remaking Crusoe in Derek Walcott's Pantomime / Brett C. McInelly
- Nativity and nationhood : Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy and Carlos Fuentes's Christopher unborn as critiques of empire / Michael Hardin
- "Dizzy with the beauty of the possible" : The sot-weed factor and the narrative exhaustion of the eighteenth-century novel / Robert Scott
- Rewriting sentimental plots : sequels to novels of sensibility by Jane Austen and another lady / Tamara Wagner
- Paula Rego's after Hogarth : a Portuguese family's Marriage à la mode / Debra Taylor Bourdeau
- "An inviolate preservation" : immortalizing the ephemeral Lock / Emily Hipchen.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-285) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780874139754
- 0874139759
- OCLC:
- 80019813
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